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Freshman forward Niveen Rasheed and the women’s basketball team clinched their first-ever trip to the NCAA Tournament Saturday by defeating Harvard.
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Women's Basketball: Tigers earn first trip to NCAA Tournament

 Many of the women’s basketball team’s victories this season have been blowouts. But as fate would have it, the weekend in which the Tigers could clinch the Ivy League championship also provided the most difficult games of the season, as they faced the defending champion and the clear second-best team in the league on back-to-back evenings.

Wilson School admits 90 of 162 applicants

 The Wilson School accepted 90 sophomores on Thursday out of 162 who applied, Wilson School spokeswoman Rebecca Anderson, said in an e-mail to The Daily Princetonian. Of the 90 accepted, six applied to be certificate students.

This year’s admission rate for the University’s only selective major is in line with last year’s, when the Wilson School accepted 90 out of around 160 students. In 2008, the Wilson School accepted 90 out of 154 applicants.

Competition for careers

On a Wednesday morning last month, Sean Pi ’12 ran breathlessly into his 10 a.m. French class dressed in a suit and tie, carrying a suitcase and his French books. Just five minutes earlier, he had paid a cab driver $300 for a ride from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, where his red-eye flight from California had landed hours before.

Learning to teach

Between teaching, doing research for her dissertation, attending meetings and grading exams, Jelena Bradic GS leads the dizzyingly over-packed lifestyle that many of her fellow graduate students can relate to. “Sometimes I’m up until 5 a.m. and don’t even realize it,” the third-year operations research and financial engineering (ORFE) graduate student said.

Men's Swimming and Diving: Tigers reign at DeNunzio

By Lauren Shanley

After losing a senior class that helped rewrite the record board last year, the men’s swimming and diving team was unsure of what would transpire in its 2009–10 season. Led by a combination of senior tri-captains Daniel Dickerson, Jonathan Hartmann and Chris Quemena, and a strong underclassman effort, the Tigers left no doubt as they won the Ivy League Championships at DeNunzio Pool on Saturday.

Men's Lacrosse: Froccaro scores four in win

BALTIMORE — The men’s lacrosse team entered last weekend’s Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic in a position in which it rarely finds itself: as the underdog. Princeton (2-0) was young, relatively inexperienced, and about to face a perennial powerhouse program on a huge stage at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. But in a back-and-forth slugfest with No. 5 Johns Hopkins (3-1) that went into overtime, the Tigers won 11-10.

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Students gather in the Mathey Common Room to watch the Oscars.